RESUME Thu Tran Nhat Dinh Personal information Thu Tran Nhat Dinh Home address: 830/16 Su Van Hanh – Ward 13 – District 10 – Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam Present address: 6402 Albany Ave. – APT #1516 – Lubbock – TX, 79424 Email address: thu.dinh@ttu.edu Education B.S. of Food Technology in Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 2000 Work experience 4-year working as teaching assistant, research assistant, undergraduate student’s thesis instructor, in Department of Food Technology and Biochemical Laboratory, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam (2000 – 2004) Lecture course: “Food engineering”, “Biochemical experiments”. Awards, honors and scholarships Honor for student in Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam (1997) Young scientist award in Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam (2003) National scholarship for M.S. study in USA (present) Skills Experiencing in using HPLC, GC for food analysis Present position M.S. graduate student in Meat Laboratory, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech University Research activities Thu T. N. Dinh – Improvement for quantitative determination of fat–soluble vitamin using HPLC system– bachelor thesis, 2000 Huong L. T. Nguyen, Thu T. N. Dinh – Decrease of fish sauce processing time using microbial proteases – a undergraduate student’s thesis, 2001 Minh Nguyet Ton Nu, Man V. V. Le, Thu T. N. Dinh – Optimization of culture medium and fermentation conditions for β-carotene biosynthesis of Rhodotorula sp”, a M.S. thesis, 2002 Thu T. N. Dinh, Dung M. Le, Yen T. B. Truong, Man V. V. Le – Study of surface culture for protease biosynthesis from Aspergillus oryzae – undergraduate student’s theses, 2002-2003 Hai T. M. Le, Thu T. N. Dinh, Man V. V. Le - Study of surface culture for protease biosynthesis from Aspergillus oryzae (cont.), protease extraction and application on fish sauce processing – a undergraduate’s thesis, 2004 Publications Thu T. N. Dinh, Dung M. Le, Yen T. B. Truong, Man V. V. Le – Study of surface culture for protease biosynthesis from Aspergillus oryzae – ASEAN Food Conference 2003 Proceeding, 2003